St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10

block of threestory frame buiid 1gs IN
Long Island City, N. Y, has been burned
with extensive coal sheds, elevator, stables
and wagon-houses. Sixteen horses were
burned to death. The total loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The bridge works of Morse Brothers, at
Youngstown, O., have been burned Loss,
100000; insurance, s98, 900.
The dry goods and clothing store of 6.
kosenthal & Co., the adjoining store OF j.
b. Nunnelly & Co., and the building OF
McEvoy & Workman, in Temple, Tex, have
been burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$31, 900.
A raid was made on Michael Kearney's
hotel, at Blissville, Long Island, by direction
of Mayor Gleason, of Long Island City, and
hfty-seven persons found on the premises
were arrested. Gleason was at the Cedarhurst
races when the raid was made, and on his
arrival in Long Island City he went to sta
tlon-honse where the prisoners were and
| opened court, announcing that he would dis
| pose of their cases. Several alleged prncl-
pals in the bookmaking business were
admitted by the mayor to bail, while the
others were fined various sums. One Of the
men held as principal was George Lucas
| Of New York, who was not prepared to fur
nish the required bail of 81, 900 before the
| mayor closed his court, and he was sent
| back to the cells Shortly afterward Justice
Michael Delehanty appeared and opened
court, and two responsible bondsmen having
| qualified for Lucas the justice ordered Police
man Thomas Harley, who was in charge, TO
bring the prisoner before him. This
Harley refused to do, saying that
Mayor Gleason had instructed him that
if either Of the justices came and ordered the
prisOnerto be taken before them it must not
be done. So Lucas was sent to the county
Jail in charge of an officer At the Jail,
however, Sheriff Mitchell refused to receive
the prisoner on the ground that the COM
mitment Of Mayor Gleason was of no force,
he having no power to commit Lucas was
then returned to the station-hOuse, where he
remains, his friends having decided to make
his case a test as to the legality of Mayor
Gleason's proceedings.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House OBJ
servatory at Phelps N. Y, has had good
observation of the new comet recently dis
covered by him in the eastern sky. 1t is
now in the constellation Cancer one degree
east of the star Iota, is moving less than one
| degree daily toward the sum- and is growing
brighter.
Charles Alexander Percy, twenty y-seven
years of age, made a safe trip through the
whirlpool rapids of Niagara in lifeboat
built by himself. 1t is seventeen feet long,
with air chambers at either end in one Of
which Percy made the trip.
The camping ground at Sea Girt, n. j., has
| been bought for the State for $4,000. The
| Legislature at its last session appropriated
| $4,000 for the purchase and the other $50
| 600 was made up by four gentlemen among
| them G. A. Halsey and William Walter
| Phelps,
| The Kansas City Journal reports that
| scheme is on foot for the union of the pres
ent Western and Northwestern Baseball
| Leagues, and the addition of outside cities
las may be deemed valuable to the in
| terests of the new league" The cities
named at present for the new association
| are: Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Des MoineS
| and either Lincoln, Neb., or ST. Louis.
The instruments of the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company have been removed
from the exchange hall of the Board of
Trade in Chicago, and the officers of the
company were informed that the privileges
of the floor would be denied them until such
time as they agree to sever all connections
with bucket shops. The Board of Trade has
succeeded in compelling all the other tele-
graph companies to come to these terms.
A passenger train and freight train on
the West Shore railroad collided near Port
Byron, N. Y. An express messenger was
killed and two other trainmen were injured.
According to mail advices from Hong
Kong, received in San Francisco, the Chinese
papers speak at considerable length of the
proposed American Chinese bank Nego-
tiations for the establishing of the proposed
bank are said to have been conducted sue
cessfully by Count Mitkewicz on behalf of a
Philadelphia syndicate. The capital is half
Chinese, and management jointly Chinese
and American. All government loans are
to be negotiated by the bank and all pay
ments for war material, public works and
foreign embassies are to be made thr ough the
bank. Paper money is to be issued under
the governments sanction, and the mint is
to be under charge of the bank. The same
syndicate is given a large privilege for the
conduct of telephone business.
General Simon Bolivar Buckner has been
lnaugurated governor of Kentucky in the
State capitol at Frankfort.
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